Evidence for ID and creationWhere is the evidence?Alyrium, you really need to check your facts. The 32-base-pair deletion in CCR5 (CCR5-delta-32) is more prevalent in people of Northern European descent than in other populations. According to Dr. Mosier, at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, CCR5-delta-32 arose about 800 years ago in Europe, based on population-bottleneck estimates.
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/recent/misc/021804c.html
http://www.rense.com/general8/gen.htm"We looked for this mutation in a large cohort of high-risk people who were HIV-negative. We found that bisexual and homosexual Caucasian men with one copy of the mutation had a 70% reduced risk of HIV infection compared with men who didn't carry the mutation at all," says Michael Marmor, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine and Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, the first author of the study.
In previous studies it had been established that men with two mutant copies of the CCR5 gene had even stronger resistance to HIV infection
http://www.netbiosciencenews.com/NR/2002/Jan/CCR5.htm
The study has been replicated and has demonstrated that although this mutation can be beneficial in slowing or stopping HIV infection, it also increases the risk of infection with HCV (hepatitis C).
Now the next question to be answered is which strain of HIV is being researched. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. Both types are transmitted by sexual contact, through blood, and from mother to child, and they appear to cause clinically indistinguishable AIDS. However, it seems that HIV-2 is less easily transmitted, and the period between initial infection and illness is longer in the case of HIV-2.
Worldwide, the predominant virus is HIV-1, and generally when people refer to HIV without specifying the type of virus they will be referring to HIV-1. The relatively uncommon HIV-2 type is concentrated in West Africa and is rarely found elsewhere.
http://www.avert.org/hivtypes.htm
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